Sometimes surgery is very, very cruel

http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/11/29/youssif.surgery/t1home.youssif.surgery.jpg

I really feel bad for this little dude.

WHAT THE HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

I knew before I opened this thread that I just didn't want to know about this.

sometimes HI DERE is very very cruel

The story is heartbreaking, too.

Also, in spots, really fucking wrong:

Although Youssif has gradually warmed up to Grossman -- especially when compared with his attitude toward hospitals and doctors back home in Iraq where he was never given any pain medication -- at times it has taken four people to hold Youssif down during his weekly inflations. But his father says that the doctor has always been kind and understanding.

It's been nearly three months since CNN.com first reported on Youssif, who was attacked by masked men outside his Baghdad home in January, doused in gas and set on fire. CNN.com users, the burn center and the Children's Burn Foundation came to his aid, with more than $300,000 raised for his treatment.

ftw

I fucking hate people. This kid looks like a total bro.

the surgery is painful, the cruelty belongs to the shitheads who burned him.

It is a cruel irony that the road to getting the scars removed can make the patient look so much worse; I was going to quote the part of the article where he scared some other kids on the playground but I didn't want people to think I was making fun of him.

Ouch, CNN headline writer:

"scales new heights" used to be... (see Nov. 22nd headline here)

This story is a plant.

I've seen some plants in my day.

this thread is horrible but can't you just imagine elvis costello singing the thread title?

So, I'm beginning to suspect that lidocaine doesn't work very well on me? For the second time, having a minor surgery done, I was able to feel a distinct and painful feeling of cutting, pulling and tearing. It wasn't like scream my head off painful but it was pain, and it was not exactly fun. I googled a little and read that people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome sometimes have this experience, but I clearly don't have EDS.